Re: [TSVN] revision graph is slow

Stefan King wrote:
>Patrick Oor wrote:
>
>> I am involved in an evaluation of TortoiseSVN for our development group.

>> I like the revision graph functionality and I expect it to be of great
>> value to our group. At the same time, I have some concerns, namely:
>> 1) its performance is sometimes painfully slow
>> 2) the revision graph seems to stop at spaces or empty lines in the log
>> file, so that it can be incomplete.
>>
>> My questions are 'am I the only one concerned about the revision graph's

>> performance?' (I have not found similar complaints in the mail archives)

>> and 'is there anybody in the community who is planning to take action on

>> improving the revision graph's performance?'
>
>The revision graph is a feature of TSVN, not Subversion. So the problem
>is that the Subversion server doesn't provide the information needed for
>that graph in a compact way. TSVN has to fetch _all_ log messages
>including the involved paths (the same information you get if you would
>show the log dialog for the repository root). Depending on how many
>revisions your repository has, this can take a while to load.
>Then, when TSVN has that information, it has to crawl those logs several
>times to create a linked list of copied items.

That is fair enough an answer. Does anybody know whether this issue has
been raised at the Subversion community?

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Patrick Oor, Medical IT, Philips Medical Systems, Best, The Netherlands
e-mail: patrick.oor@philips.com, phone: +31 40 27 62980